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Eng. Notes-2 The Sound of Music PO
Eng. Notes-2 The Sound of Music PO
Eng. Notes-2 The Sound of Music PO
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By Deborah Cowley
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1. How old was Evelyn when she went to the Royal Academy of Music?
2. When was her deafness first noticed? When was it confirmed?
Answer
1. Evelyn was seventeen years old when she went to the Royal Academy
of Music in London.
2. Her deafness was first noticed when she was eight years old and it
was confirmed when she was eleven.
1. Who helped her to continue with music? What did he do and say?
2. Name the various places and causes for which Evelyn performs.
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Evelyn heard music by sensing the notes in different parts of her body.
When Ron Forbes tuned two drums to different notes and asked her to
sense the sound without using her ears, she realized that she could feel
the higher drum from the waist up and the lower drum from the waist
down. She learnt how to open her mind and body to sounds and
vibrations. It was sheer determination and hard work. When she played
the xylophone, she could sense the sound passing up the stick into her
fingertips. By leaning against the drums, she could feel the resonances
flowing into her body. On a wooden platform, she removed her shoes so
that the vibrations could pass through her bare feet and up her legs. She
herself said that music poured in through every part of her body. It
tingled in the skin, her cheekbones and even in her hair.
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II. Find the words in the text which show Ustad Bismillah Khan’s feelings
about the items listed below. Then mark a tick (✔ ✔) in the correct
column. Discuss your answers in class.
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Shehnai has a better tonal quality than pungi. It is a natural hollow stem
pipe with holes on its body and is longer and broader than the pungi.
Shehnai is, in a way, an improvement upon the pungi.
3. Where was the shehnai played traditionally? How did Bismillah Khan
change this?
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4. When and how did Bismillah Khan get his big break?
Answer
Bismillah khan got his big break in 1938. The All India Radio opened in
Lucknow and Bismillah khan played shehnai on radio. He soon became
an often heard player on radio. He became the first Indian to greet the
nation with his shehnai from the Red Fort on 15 August, 1947.
5. Where did Bismillah Khan play the shehnai on 15 August 1947? Why
was the event historic?
Answer
On 15 August 1947, Bismillah Khan played the Raag Kaafi on his shehnai
from the Red Fort. The event was historical because it was on the
occasion of India's Independence from British Rule.
6. Why did Bismillah Khan refuse to start a shehnai school in the U.S.A.?
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7. Find at least two instances in the text which tell you that Bismillah
Khan loves India and Benaras.
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The first instance is when he turned down his student’s offer to start a
shehnai school in U.S.A. The second instance is when Khansaab was
asked by Shekhar Gupta about moving to Pakistan during the partition,
he said that he would never leave Benaras.
Answer
II. From the text on Bismillah Khan, find the words and phrases that match
these definitions and write them down. The number of the paragraph
where you will find the words/phrases has been given for you in brackets.
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Consult your dictionary and complete the following table. The first one
has been done for you.
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